I cannot believe how far they've missed the mark here with Kili. He looks like the love-child of Aragorn and Legolas, and I mean that quite literally. I'm honestly convinced that Kili couldn't get further from being a dwarf if PJ and Weta tried.

Horrible. Just absolutely horrible. I really cannot think of anything else to say.

I guess I just need time to try to accept it. I have that feeling again that I had during Indy 4. Sort of a mixed disbelief. It was hard to know how to feel, being that it was an oxymoron, it is impossible for Indiana Jones to suck, and yet it did. I thought the results would cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe in the process, but nothing happened. I was just left in shock and scared for life. They need to be different, I get that, but why no beard? Maybe the other dwarves shaved him in his sleep? "There is a long road yet," said Gandalf. "But it is the last road," said Bilbo.

Aidan Turner looked more dwarven, and more believable, at the press conference, el natural, than totally-missed-the-mark Kili does.

I still have a glimmer of hope that he looks like that only in the poster with all the airbrush and fan blown hair and would be much more rugged and hirsute (in one word: dwarf-like) in the actual movie. It's a faint one, but there it is. Othewise he sticks out like an overgroomed urban dandy in the middle of a rough and dirty biker gang.

Fili doesnt look too bad. " So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane? "

on their way to the shire the stopped at Bree. The dwarves decided to have a big drinking session. The last one before the trip. Kili got so drunk he passed out. The other dwarves thought it would be funny to shave him. Thus Kili woke up with out a beard. the dwarves find this funny, kili vowes never to drink again..... Twitter: @IrfonPennant

They actually went out of their way to pretty him up! I'm holding out hope that his on-screen look in the films is a bit rougher and this promo shot is some kind of inside joke, because otherwise it's pretty much a slap in the face to Tolkien and all the fans who haven't been overwhelmed by their hormones. Speaking of which, I'm very surprised at how such a large number of fans could basically abandon their Tolkien ideals just for the sake of some cheap eye candy.